The Valid Fallacy

Liberal/Feminist/Atheist/Humanist > Interest in Educational, Cognitive, Developmental, & Cultural Psychology and Communication > Comic Book Freak > Gamer > Avid Reader > Support LGBTAQ (a is for asexual) > Open for discussion and debate. I am reasonable, interested, and passionate.

[buotella]

I, Tonya (2017) Little Women (2019)  The Queen’s Gambit (2020)

[koroleva-nazyalensky]

[pinstripes-of-doom-deactivated2]

a classic bonus:

[gremlins-2-the-new-batch]

[miss-holloways]

[personinthepalace]

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

[mychal-is-ok]

[burntcopper]

things english speakers know, but don’t know we know.

[windycityteacher-deactivated202]

WOAH WHAT?

[ice-light-red-deactivated201611]

That is profound. I noticed this by accident when asked about adjectives by a Japanese student. She translated something from Japanese like “Brown big cat” and I corrected her. When she asked me why, I bluescreened.

[moved--306389]

What the fuck, English isn’t even my first language and yet I picked up on that. How the fuck. What the fuck.

[exomoon]

Reasoning: It Just Sounds Right

[arkthepieking]

Oooh, don’t like that. Nope, I do not even like that a little bit.  That’s parting the veil and looking at some forbidden fucking knowledge there.

[canthinkofaurl-deactivated20221]

How did I even learn this language wtf

[titaniumelemental]

I had to read “brown big cat” like three times before my brain stopped interpreting it as “big brown cat”

[arjan-de-lumens]

I’m kinda reading “brown big cat” as “brown (big cat)”, that is, a “big cat” - like a tiger or lion or other felid of similar size - that happens to be brown. “Big brown cat”, on the other hand, sounds more like a brown cat that’s just a bit bigger than a regular housecat - like a bobcat or a maine coon cat or something like that.

[the-real-seebs]

yeah, a brown big cat is almost certainly a puma. a big brown cat is probably a maine coon.

[whetstonefires]

yeah, if you put the adjectives out of order you wind up implying a compound noun, which is presumably why we have this rule; we stripped out so much inflection over the centuries word order now dictates a huge amount of our grammar

[delphinidin4]

Just looked up why we do this and one of the first lines in this article is, “Adjectives are where the elves of language both cheat and illumine reality.” so I know it’s a good article.

Things this article has taught me:

This same order of adjectives more or less applies to languages around the world.  “It’s possible that these elements of universal grammar clarify our thought in some way,” says Barbara Partee, a professor emeritus of linguistics and philosophy at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Yet when the human race tacitly decided that shape words go before color words go before origin words, it left no record of its rationale.

One theory is that the more specific term always falls closer to the noun. But that doesn’t explain everything in adjective order.

Another theory is that as you get closer to the noun, you encounter adjectives that denote more innate properties. In general, nouns pick out the type of thing we’re talking about, and adjectives describe it,” Partee told me. She observes that the modifiers most likely to sit right next to nouns are the ones most inclined to serve as nouns in different contexts: Rubber duck. Stone wall.

Rules are made to be broken. Switching up the order of adjectives allows you to redistribute emphasis. (If you wish to buy the black small purse, not the gray one, for instance, you can communicate your priorities by placing color before size).  Scrambling the order of adjectives also helps authors achieve a sense of spontaneity, of improvising as they go. Wolfe discovers such a rhythm, a feeling-his-way quality, when he discusses his childhood recollection of “brown tired autumn earth” and a “flat moist plug of apple tobacco.”

Brain scans have discovered that your brain has to work harder to read adjectives in the “wrong” order.

TL;DR: No one knows why we do this adjective thing but it’s pretty hardwired in.

[queerangelonfire]

Genderqueer/non-binary celebrities

Amandla Stenberg: non-binary actress and singer (The Hate U Give, The Hunger Games) [she/her; they/them]

Ezra Miller: genderqueer actor (The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Justice League) [prefers he/him but is comfortable with all pronouns]

Chella Man: genderqueer YouTuber, actor & model (Titans) [he/him]

Brigette Lundy-Paine: non-binary actor (Atypical, The Glass Castle) [they/them]

Angel Haze: agender rapper & singer (Battle Cry, Cleaning out my Closet) [she/her; he/him]

Indya Moore: non-binary actor & model (Pose, Queen & Slim) [they/them]

Ruby Rose: genderfluid actress, model, talk show host, DJane (Batwoman, OitnB) [she/her]

Asia Kate Dillon: non-binary actor (Billions, OitnB) [they/them]

Quintessa Swindell: non-binary actor (Trinkets, Euphoria) [they, them]

Jonathan Van Ness: non-binary television personality, podcaster & hairdresser (Queer Eye) [prefers he/him but is also okay with they/them & she/her]

Feel free to add other celebrities or to correct me if I’ve got something wrong!

[softestvirgil]

Lachlan Watson: Nonbinary actor (The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) [they/them]

Liv Hewson: Nonbinary actor (Santa Clarita Diet, Let It Snow) [they/them]

Bex Taylor-Klaus: Nonbinary actor and voice actor [Voltron, Scream]

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sam smith (they/them) - singer

gerard way (he/they) - member of mcr

dorian electra (they/them) - singer

sonicfox (they/them) - esports player

[localscatterbrain]

Rebecca Sugar! (they/them she/her) - Cartoon show-runner: “Steven Universe”

[axolotleo]

Jacob Tobia - non-binary voice actor (they/them) played Double Trouble on She-Ra!

[apthotiosis]

Jay Harper- andro/gender-fluid actor and singer (they/them but comfortable with he/him and she/her), jayisjo (@jayhoward_official on twitter), performer in ‘Ultimate Storytime’

[ancientson]

Karin Dreijer (Xe): non-binary/genderfluid, queer, Swedish singer/musician/songwriter and co-founder of the Knife. Also has solo project called Fever Ray (which is very queer). Feverray on Instagram and @feverray on Twitter.

Andrea Gibson (they/them): Non-binary slam poet and activist

[amuseoffyre]

Janelle Monae: (Hasn’t specified pronouns yet) Singer, songwriter, artist and actor

[apocryphalia]

Literally lost this post and had to scroll way the fuck back down my dash to find it again and rb because I’m going to cry over it. Yes I know, I cry over everything these days, fuck off. I literally just started halfway coming out to people in my real life this week and this shit is fucking validating.

[biofomission]

Possum Plows

Lead Singer of Openside (They/Them)

[awesome-badass-cafeteria-sauce]

I love that some of these amazing humans prefer a certain pronoun but are okay with others and that some ‘look female’ and use she/her or ‘look male’ and use he/him BUT THEY’RE STILL NON-BINARY!!!It helps others know that they are 1000% valid! It helped me understand that I CAN identify as nb because that’s how I feel but not change my name or pronouns or how I look in any way! You don’t HAVE to look androgynous and use they/them pronouns to be nb or anything that isn’t male or female (whether that’s cis or trans)! It’s about how you feel! Not how you look or present yourself! I also had NO IDEA about Gerard Way! This post is so important and I love it and I love all of the people on this list!

[678i0u]

mcu ladies + alignments

[quietlee]

“One of the hardest things you will ever have to do is grieve the loss of a person who is still alive.”

— Unknown (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

[trowelsanddirt]

by will mcphail

[the-catto]

iT's fUnY beCAusE mEn aRE DumB

[addictedtocaring]

No dumbass, it's funny because women are usually left out of these pictures. And most of history. While actually, you know... living full lives and contributing to society. Just like men do. But men are always in the fucking picture.

This isn't a comic about men being dumb, it's a comic about women being forgotten, ignored, and excluded. But you were so ready to be pissed at mean feminists that you took something personally that absolutely wasn't and got offended by something that wasn't being said.

[cheesyradfem]

The artist was a man but women still got blamed for the “misandrist joke” by a redpiller calling himself a “big dick americhad“

[she-volution-deactivated2022052]

i love this dude he’s made a bunch of other ‘misandrist jokes’ as well

[marauders4evr]

“And that quote, “The only disability in life is a bad attitude,” the reason that that’s bullshit is because it’s just not true.” - Stella Young

[IDs: Screenshots from the late, great, Stella Young’s TED Talk: I’m Not Your Inspiration, Thank You Very Much. Stella is a wheelchair-user sitting up on the stage in front of a massive crowd. In these screenshots, she’s saying, “No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp. Never. (Laughter. Applause.) Smiling at a television screen isn’t going to make closed captions appear for people. No amount of standing in the middle of a bookshop and radiating a positive attitude is going to turn all those books into braille.]

I use this speech and the underlying theories a lot in my PhD, but Stella Young honestly had one of those voices that needs to be heard by everyone, so I figured I’d post my favorite part of the speech here. If anyone remembers that time I threw myself onto the floor For The Vine, you’ll know that I also hate the quote: “The only disability in life is a bad attitude”. Stella just conveyed the message with less pain.

Link to Stella Young’s TED Talk | Link to the transcript

[mysharona1987]

[pie-thinkings]

I want to prove a point to a coworker of mine.

Pretend this post is the coronavirus.

If you see this on your dash, just reblog it.

Let’s show them how quickly this virus can spread from just one person.

[pie-thinkings]

OP UPDATE

I showed this to my coworker and she said it doesn’t really count because I obviously have thousands of followers.

So I told her that I have just over 100 followers and that only ONE of them actually reblogged this post when I originally posted it at the beginning of December.

It’s been a month and now has almost 20,000 reblogs.

Her reply?

“Oh...”

[closet-keys]

them: you don’t watch game of thrones?? really? how come?

me: 

[closet-keys]

@scarcity-of-cats @annajanes

It’s called Unconsenting Media 

[shelikestowakeupandjustfakeit]

Oh my god, this is going on my list along with doesthedogdie.com

[tzikeh]

Holy shit that’s useful

[elfgirleargasm-deactivated20241]

I probably won’t find myself using this but for my followers: if you can’t handle this shit, USE THIS. If you think a movie or tv show may be hard to watch, do your homework.

[priboltao]

1 - the very reason why I don’t watch GoT

2 - This and rotten apples are some of the best sites ever

3 - Does the dog die have a TON of subcategories, such as jumpscares, strobe effects, does a kid die, does an LGBT person dies and many, many others (they actually link to unconsenting media under “someone is sexually assaulted”). Please save it to tour favorites is really freaking usefull

[whimsisadie]

Useful info. But… (and I sort of doubt it) is there a database like this for car and/or motorcycle accidents? I end up having to give up on lots of movies and shows because there’s often too much for me to handle still. Don’t really like playing the guessing game of “how traumatized is this gonna make me”

[this-is-lena-winter]

Does the Dog Die has car crashes, and if someone gets hit by a car

Seriously, they have a ton of things, and if they don’t, you can reach out to them and they’ll add a category

[mediatriggerwarnings]

Hey y’all I know I haven’t posted in literal ages but here’s a bunch of sites who do this way better than I do!

[garlic-slut]

Does the Dog Die added their lgbt death section at the request of a Twitter user. So if they don’t have a trigger warning you think would be good you might be able to ask them to add it.

[baawri]

Say no to stereotypes, be happy everyday! [x]

[thick-thighs-and-french-fries]

Cant reblog this enough

[madame-serpentine]

Goes to show, these double standards hurt everyone

[1of1scorpio]

‼️

[quietlee]

Unfortunately, more than one.

[clonetrobed]

- A luxury you can’t live without? - A luxury I can’t live without? Coffee. I really like good coffee. - That’s not a luxury, you can get it anywhere. - …I like nice socks?

[aesopquarriman]

[id: gifs of larry king interviewing danny pudi. larry says, “that’s not a luxury, though. coffee and socks are not a luxury. danny says, “alright, give me a luxury. which - … what luxury should i have?“larry says, “a private plane.” danny says, a bit incredulously, “…. larry, i’m on ducktales.” end id]

[hearthburn]

Bear witness to the disconnect between a Boomer’s idea of luxury and a Millennial’s.

[sugarmoonaki]

Never come to me and say Natives aren’t discriminated.

My own family had been discriminated against in the Canadian healthcare system.

I’m so tired.

[ithelpstodream]

pls 😍

[themurphyzone]

“The moon turned into my girlfriend.” “That’s great, buddy!”

[wishmakersblog]

Oh no

OH NO

I WANNA WRITE

[weirdloverwilde]

@aussiearies

[chloroart]

MY HAND SLIPPED-

[yeah-asbestos]

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH OH MY GOD

[havanasliu]

men will watch the most trash shit ever released but when it comes to a girl squad movie it needs to meet the highest bar to be considered watchable and worthy of their oh so valuable time lol i have to laugh

[astrangeenchantedboy]

i was thinking abt that earlier bc my coworker said "so birds of prey doesn't look very good" and i said "i don't care if it's the most trash ass movie ever made, i'm excited and i'm GONNA watch it!" he said "what, just because they're women" and i said "uh. yeah."

especially in genres, women are held to a weirdly high standard. there are like eight fucking movies where tom cruise plays himself in ridiculous high-stakes spy settings and no one bitches that they're unrealistic or stupid or whatever but margot robbie does it once and suddenly it's all about the integrity of the art.

[deeperwells]

Men will fully see 11 Fast and Furious movies and 7 spinoffs to “support the boys” or whatever but the second a girl movie comes out theyre all film majors

[rotzaprachim]

Listen, if performing femininity is an “empowering choice,” then it needs to be an actual choice. Meaning that woman can opt out of it without negative consequence. Meaning a woman can go to an academic event without heels or in a simple suit and still be “professional.” Meaning that a woman can go to a job interview without a full face of makeup and not be “tired” or “disheveled.” Meaning that a woman can walk around in shorts with unshaven legs and not be a dirty, unclean gremlin. Meaning that a little girl can play and break barriers and like STEM while wearing jeans and a t-shirt and not be considered less empowered or “just trying to be a boy.”

Meaning that a woman’s femininity and womanhood is not contingent upon the extent to which she buys and performs a time-consuming, expensive, uncomfortable mold of a very specific type of packaged femininity. 

This isn’t even going into the effect these double standards have on women who in some way, by their very existence, do not fit the standard white western beauty mold and are expected to perform hyperfemininity to be “women” at all. I.e. women of colour esp. darker-skinned women of colour, hijabi women and tznius-keeping women, fat women, disabled women, trans women, etc.